Book Reviews by Author

Adkins, Roy, “Nelson’s Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World”

Ahern, Cecelia, “Thanks for the Memories”

Asimov, Isaac, “The Gods Themselves”

Asquith, Christina, “Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq“

Auslander, Shalom, “Foreskin’s Lament”

Baggott, Julia, “The Prince of Fenway Park”

Barrow, John D., “One Hundred Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About Math”

Bauer, Joan, “Hope Was Here”

Bauermeister, Erica, “The School of Essential Ingredients”

Bazell, Josh, “Beat the Reaper”

Bergreen, Laurence, “Over the Edge of the World”

Black, Jr., Charles L., “A New Birth of Freedom”

Blum, Deborah, “Love at Goon Park“

Bonds, Russell S., “Stealing the General”

Bradbury, Ray, “Fahrenheit 451”

Bridges, Ruby, “Through My Eyes”

Browning, Sinclair, “The Last Song Dogs”

Bryson, Bill, “The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid”

Buckley, Michael, “NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society (Book One)“

Buergenthal, Thomas, “A Lucky Child”

Burnside, John, “The Glister”

Butler, Octavia, “Kindred”

Campbell, Bebe Moore, “Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad“

Carlisle, Kate, “Homicide in Hardcover”

Casagrande, June, “Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite“

Chabon, Michael, “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay”

Chabon, Michael, “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union”

Chadwick, Bruce, “1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See”

Clarke, Thurston, “The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days that Inspired America”

Coleman, Christine, “The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society“

Coll, Steve, “The Bin Laden Family”

Collins, Suzanne, “Catching Fire“

Collins, Suzanne, “The Hunger Games“

Conant-Park, Jessica & Conant, Susan, “Turn Up the Heat”

Connelly, Michael, “The Scarecrow”

Cummins, Joseph, “The War Chronicles: From Flintlocks to Machine Guns“

Dashner, James, “The Maze Runner“

Davies, Norman, “No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939-1945”

Dawson, Greg, “Hiding in the Spotlight”

Dekker, Ted, “Boneman’s Daughters”

De Rosnay, Tatiana, “Sarah’s Key”

Duberman, Martin, “Paul Robeson: A Biography”

Dunant, Sarah, “Sacred Hearts“

Dunmore, Helen, “The Deep”

Ebershoff, David, “The 19th Wife”

Ecelbarger, Gary, “The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination”

Elliott, Zetta, “A Wish After Midnight”

Elon, Amos, “The Pity of It All”

Englert, J.F., “A Dog About Town”

Englert, J.F., “A Dog Among Diplomats”

Eteraz, Ali, “Childen of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan“

Everitt, Anthony, “Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician”

Fehrenbacher, Don, “The Slaveholding Republic”

Fink, Thomas, “The Man’s Book: The Essential Guide For the Modern Man”

Finney, Jack, “Time and Again”

Fischer, Chuck, “Angels: A Pop-Up Book“

Fisher, Robin Gaby, “After the Fire”

Fleming, Thomas, “Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America by Thomas Fleming”

Foner, Eric, “Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation & Reconstruction”

Forche, Carolyn, “Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness”

Ford, Clyde, “Whiskey Gulf“

Ford, Jamie, “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”

Ford, Mackenzie, “Gifts of War”

Freeman, Charles, “The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and The Fall of Reason”

Fromkin, David, “A Peace to End All Peace”

Gallagher, Thomas, “Assault in Norway: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Program”

Gillard, Linda, “Emotional Geology”

Gillard, Linda, “A Lifetime Burning”

Gillard, Linda, “Star Gazing”

Gladwell, Malcolm, “Outliers”

Glass, Matthew, “Ultimatum”

Graber, Mark, “Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil”

Greenfield, Eloise, “Paul Robeson (Children’s Introduction)”

Griffin, Laura, “Whisper of Warning”

Hale, Shannon, “The Actor and the Housewife”

Hale, Shannon, “Princess Academy”

Harris, Charlaine, Club Dead

Harris, Charlaine, “Dead to the World“

Harris, Charlaine, “Dead Until Dark“

Harris, Charlaine, “Definitely Dead“

Harris, Charlaine, “Living Dead In Dallas“

Hart, John, “The Last Child”

Hastings, Max, “Armaggedon”

Hastings, Max, “Retribution: The Battle for Japan: 1944-1945”

Himes, Chester, “Cotton Comes to Harlem“

Hitchcock, Jane Stanton, “Mortal Friends“

Hochschild, Adam, “King Leopold’s Ghost”

Horwitz, Tony, “A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World”

Huyler, Frank, “Right of Thirst”

James, Larry, “Fixing Hell”

Jensen, Liz, “The Rapture”

Judt, Tony, “Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945”

Jurgensen, Dalia, “Spiced”

Kadohata, Cynthia, “Kira-Kira”

Kennedy, Marlane, “The Dog Days of Charlotte Hayes”

Korda, Michael, “Ike: An American Hero”

Lachman, Charles, “The Last Lincolns”

Larsson, Stieg, “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”

Larsson, Stieg, “The Girl Who Played With Fire“

Larsson, Stieg, “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo“

Law, Ingrid, “Savvy“

Lehrman, Lewis E., “Lincoln at Peoria”

Levine, James A., “The Blue Notebook”

Livio, Mario, “Is God a Mathematician?”

Lurie, April, “The Latent Powers of Dylan Fontaine“

Lusane, Clarence, “Race in the Global Era”

Lynch, Jim, “The Highest Tide: A Novel”

Marino, Nan, “Neil Armstrong is My Uncle”

Mazetti, Katarina, “Benny & Shrimp”

McBride, James, “The Color of Water”

McCarthy, Cormac, “The Road”

McDermott, Terry, “Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It”

McDougall, Walter A., “Throes of Democracy”

Meacham, John, “American Lion”

Metz, Julie, “Perfection”

Miller, William, “President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman”

Millu, Liana, “Smoke Over Birkenau”

Mitchell, Shandi, “Under This Unbroken Sky”

Moaveni, Azadeh, “Lipstick Jihad”

Mosley, Walter, “The Long Fall”

O’Brien, Stacey, “Wesley the Owl”

Ockler, Sarah, “Twenty Boy Summer”

Oren, Michael B., “Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present”

Patel, Eboo, “Acts of Faith”

Pelecanos, George, “The Turnaround”

Penny, Louise, “The Brutal Telling“

Pepperberg, Irene M., “Alex & Me”

Peters, Ellis, “A Morbid Taste for Bones“

Peters, Ellis, “One Corpse Too Many“

Rhodes, Richard, “Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race”

Richmond, Michelle, “No One You Know”

Rigler, Laurie Viera, “Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict“

Rinella, Steven, “American Buffalo”

Roberts, Dorothy, “Killing the Black Body”

Robeson, Paul, “Here I Stand“

Sayrafiezadeh, Said, “When Skateboards Will Be Free”

Schama, Simon, “Rough Crossings”

See, Lisa, “Shanghai Girls”

Seife, Charles, “Decoding the Universe”

Selznick, Brian, “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”

Shaffer, Mary Ann and Barrows, Annie, “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society“

Shea, Ammon, “Reading the OED”

Sheehan, Neil, “A Fiery Peace In A Cold War“

Sherwood, Ben, “The Survivors Club”

Shreve, Anita, “Testimony”

Shulevitz, Uri, “How I Learned Geography”

Smith, Alexander McCall, “Friends, Lovers, Chocolate”

Smith, Yeardley, “I, Lorelei”

Steiner, Mark E., “An Honest Calling”

Swann, Leonie, “Three Bags Full”

Symonds, Craig, “Lincoln and His Admirals”

Thornton, Rosy, “Crossed Wires”

Toobin, Jeffrey, “The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court”

Tudge, Colin, “The Link”

Turow, Scott, “Reversible Errors“

Tyson, Timothy, “Blood Done Sign My Name”

Tyson, Timothy, “Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams & the Roots of Black Power”

Unger, Harlow Giles, “The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life”

Verghese, Abraham, “Cutting for Stone”

Waldman, Ayelet, “Bad Mother”

Weiner, Eric, “The Geography of Bliss”

Whelan, Gloria, “The Locked Garden”

Wilkins, Roger, “Jefferson’s Pillow”

Willis, Connie, “Doomsday“

Winik, Jay, “The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World: 1788-1800“

Woodson, Jacqueline, “If You Come Softly“

Zama, Farahad, “The Marriage Bureau for Rich People”

Zusak, Martin, “The Book Thief”